I don’t even fully use the 30 votes. I’d hate to think about trying to do 100. So many witnesses have put out zero blog post statements in 2023 let alone some kind of end-of-year 2022 post regarding their witness. Making it even harder to do any research on their current activities.
The average person can’t be expected to go beyond the last couple of blog posts to try and track down what they have been up to. You would think there be more of a current effort by people trying to break into or hold their spot in top 20 by making it easier for people to research them.
Even after a vote is cast it needs to be a reasonable enough number that people can check in from time to time about the people they are voting on.
Some days I’m tempted to just yank all my votes and start over again after giving it a few months to think over.
Lately I've been voting based on the HBD interest rate the witness is supporting, making sure all my witnesses support 20%. It's an easy metric to refer to. I've tried to read what the witnesses have written, to see what they support or figure out their perspective: most don't write anything! So I gave up on that.
If it falls below 20% APR I would not be shocked if many changed votes as needed.
It is difficult to know who to vote for isn't it. I haven't used all my votes either as I decided to only use them for witnesses that I have had a real interaction of some kind with or that I have seen be active/constructive in the community.